Seven Juveniles Escape Detention Home in 100 Mile Chase
The article recalls seven youths from a detention home breaking free with a small arsenal, stealing a car, and fleeing to Kansas before being captured after a high speed chase. It notes four were girls and only one over 15, then contrasts with 197 Boys Ranch residents who largely returned home for Christmas, with all but two back by Sunday night.
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Kansas
Boys Ranch
Newark
Chicago
Oregon
New Year’s Eve Radio Dance Bands Still Tops
On New Year’s Eve we heard several dance bands. Guy Lombardo remains the audience favorite, while Duke Ellington’s offbeat flights drew mixed reactions. Lombardo’s television debut follows on Channel 14 at 7 30 PM, preceding Liberace.
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Guy Lombardo
Channel 1 4
Liberace
Malenkov Tour Rumors Stir Lubbock and Nearby Plains
The note recalls The Malenkov may travel to Lubbock but not Amarillo with North Plains closed to Russian visitors while South Plains remains open to infiltration. It suggests pressure from Lubbock to keep the town accessible and invites readers to buy golf clubs amid lighthearted quips on communism and Rose Bowl mist.
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Malenkov
Lubbock
Amarillo
North Plains
South Plains
Mexico City New Year Violence Toll Topples Hundreds
At least 10 people were killed and 300 injured during New Year celebrations in Mexico City. Police report traffic accidents caused the largest death toll, with brawls ranking second.
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Mexico City
Amarillo and 19 Plains Counties Declared Off Limits to Russians
The United States barred Amarillo, Potter and Randall counties and 17 other Plains Panhandle areas from Russian entry. Officials cited reciprocity and embassy travel limits as core reasons, adding 103 Texas counties were restricted for Soviet travel.
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Lubbock
U.S
Plains Counties
Washington
Amarillo
Pottery
Randall
Plains-Panhandle
United States
State Department
Kremlin
U. S
Texas
McCarthy Ends Chairmanship Amid Surprise Witness
Sen McCarthy resigns as investigating committee chair with a brune tte witness claiming a Communist death sentence for FBI undercover work. The session, noted by AP, follows a tit for tat move announced by the State Department after Dulles informs Soviet Ambassador Zarubin.
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ED Creagh
Washington
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
FBI
United Nations
Lubbock
State Department
Dulles
Georgi N. Zarubin
Witness identifies eight Westinghouse workers as Communists
Miss Mary Stella Beynon 31 testifies she joined the Communist party in February 1946 to report to the FBI. She names four Westinghouse employees in Pittsburgh, including Theodore Wright who denies current membership, and says she was expelled in May 1947 after a report was allegedly used against her. Frank Nestler from Jeanette identifies seven more Westinghouse workers as Communists and overlaps Beynon’s list, bringing total named Reds to eight in the Pittsburgh area.
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Mary Stella Beynon
Communist Party
FBI
Miss Beynon
Chic
Comely
Westinghouse Co
Pittsburgh
Theodore Wright
Westinghouse
Wilmerding
Wright
Roy Hudson
Western Pennsylvania
Frank Nestler
Jeanette
Reds
Pittsburgh Area
Teens Held After Potter County Jail Break
Seven youths were moved from Meade Kansas to Amarillo Texas where three boys and one girl face Dyer Act charges for transporting a stolen car across state lines. FBI agents filed the charges before a U S commissioner. Two girls remain at large in the detention home.
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Potter County
U.S
FBI
William S. Murphy
Dallas
Amarillo
Meade
Kan
Curtis Travis
John Brown
Defense witness cites lack of counsel in contempt move
Peter Ly d on, a defense plant worker from Allston Massachusetts, failed to appear before a Senate subcommittee probing alleged Communist penetration of defense industry. He sent word he could not testify without counsel whose holiday unavailability delayed his appearance.
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Associated Press
Edwin Garfield
Allston
Mass
Congress
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Washington
Senate
Garfield
GM Leads Jump as Stock Market Opens Higher in New Year
New York AP reports a strong market start with gains of 1 to 3 dollars per share and GM surging to 105.12 after traded 65,400 shares. GM later announced a 325 million rights offering for one new share per 20 held, with price to be set later. Rumors of dividends and splits swirled as the index peaked at 107.37 before easing. Du Pont closed up 4 at 171.50 after a 175.75 high.
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General Motors
Wall Street
du Pont
General Motors Common
Amarillo Banks Hit All Time Deposit Highs
Amarillo banks report year end deposits near record highs with three national banks totaling 152 132 184 on December 31 1954. Dallas deposits surpassed two billion to 2 023 099 266 90 and Houston reached 1 775 196 510 90. Fort Worth ranked among top Texas centers in deposits and loans rose to 70 507 847 with a 1953 loan total of 57 438 446.
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Amarillo
Federal Comptroller
Associated Press
Texas
Dallas
Houston
Fort Worth
Shivers Receives State Water Problem Report
Gov. Shivers was given a Texas Society of Professional Engineers report describing water as the state's top issue. The engineers urged cooperation among conflicting interests and offered a plan to assist Legislature when it tackles the water problem next week.
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Austin
Gov
Shivers
Texas Society of Professional Engineers
Frank Drought
San Antonio
Texas
Drought
Couple found dead from gas asphyxiation in apartment
William Wilde and his wife Dorothy were discovered dead in their 315 West Central apartment after a gas stove burned full blast. Deputy sheriff Henry Maggard and Justice of the Peace Charlie Carder said the couple had been dead about 72 hours or more.
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W. Central
William John Wilde
Dorothy E
Howard Boxwell
Boxwell Bros. Funeral Home
Charlie Carder
Henry Maggard
W. P. McIntosh
River Road
Chicago
Mrs. Wilde
Wilde
Carder
Same Men Expected To Run New Congress
Democrats and Republicans agree the 84th Congress will have the same leaders with titles swapped. Knowland becomes minority leader in the Senate while Johnson becomes majority leader. In the House Rayburn becomes minority leader, and Martin hands the speakership to Rayburn, who becomes majority leader. Democrats hold 48 of 96 Senate seats with Morse signaling party shift. House stands 231 Democrats, 203 Republicans, plus one vacancy.
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Associated Press
Joseph Martin
R-Mass
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Martin
Congress
Washington
Senate
William Knowland
Calif
GOP
Lyndon B. Johnson
House
Joseph W. Martin
Rayburn
Sen
Wayne Morse
Oregon
Flier Dianna Bixby Found Dead in Gulf Crash
The body of Dianna Bixby 32, famed woman flyer, was recovered from wreckage off Lower California. A Navy diver and Coast Guard crew retrieved her near Loreto as she and husband sought to pick up vegetables in Mexico.
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Dianna Bixby
Gulf Long Beach
Calif
Petite Dianna Bixby
Gulf of California
James Watkins
Coast Guard
Puerto Escandido
Lower California
E. K. Converse
Long Beach
Boston
Lillian
Robert
Loreto
Wheeler farmer wins in cotton quota suit ruling faulty PMA procedure
Federal District Judge Joe B. Dooley ruled in favor of Owen B. Harvey in Wheeler County suit over a 241.33 penalty for growing cotton without an issued allotment. The decision found the Wheeler County PMA committee failed to notify whether he had an allotment, signaling procedural faults rather than constitutional testing of the 1938 act. Fort Worth attorney William B. West II assisted.
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Riules
John Masterman
Daily News
Owen B. Harvey
Harvey
Joe B. Dooley
Amarillo
Wheeler County Production and Marketing Administration Committee
Jude Dooley
Har
Vey
PMA
William B. West II
Fort Worth
U.S
Hammar skylld Arrives in Canton on Free the Fliers Mission
Peiping radio reports United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold landed in Canton China at 8 30 a m on his way to Peiping to press for the release of prisoners. The broadcast was heard in Tokyo.
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Tokyo
Peiping
United Nations
Dag Hammarskjold
Canton
China
State of Union Talk Previewed
Republican leaders after a White House preview predicted Eisenhower s State of the Union message will be well received. The president will address a joint Senate and House session Thursday in a 6400 word, about 45 minute speech. Senators Knowland and Bridges said no great surprises were found in advance text and bipartisan support is likely.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Senate
House
Sen
Knowland
Calif
Congress
Sen. Bridges
RNH
Bridges
Amarillo Weather Report From 1955 Clocks In Wind
The morning notes indicate sun in Amarillo for two of the last three days in 1955 with readings at 3 pm yesterday showing cloudy skies and light wind. Visibility appeared steady as clouds moved across the area.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Pecos Valley
West
Panama Enters State of Siege After Assassination
The National Assembly declared a ten day state of siege to aid secret police hunting machinegun assassins who killed President Jose Antonio Remon as he sat at Juan Franco Race Track. Ex president Arnulfo Arias and two women among those rounded up for questioning.
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Panama
National Assembly
Jose Antonio Remon
Arnulfo Arias
Remon
Juan Franco
Col
Saturnino Flores
National Guard
Flores
Arias
Youth 14 slain while fleeing deputy sheriff
In Albuquerque on January 3 a fourteen year old Raymond Trujeque was shot to death by a deputy sheriff while fleeing in a stolen light truck. Two companions Clifford Kizer aged 14 and Joe Santillanes aged 17 were arrested after a 100 mile per hour chase on East Central Ave. Kizer was on holiday clearance for good behavior. both youths were held for car theft.
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Albuquerque
Raymond Trujeque
State Reform School
Esequiel Trujeque
Clifford Kizer
Joe Santillanes
East Central Ave
Kizer
Santillanes
Harold Hubbell
Arthur Carriere
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